haven't blogged for so long!
just to keep this blog alive, everything had been rather rough lately. my work's been insane. the boss has been a major bitch/bastard. like, seriously. i love my kids and students and teaching but honestly, i think some people are totally fucked up. i mean, i am ME for bloody god's sake. why do they keep wanting to change me. and worse, treat me like a student because i was once a student there?
anyway, something sweet happened today!
Mervyn had wanted to change a car for sometime. he was sick of his red mazda 6 and was thinking of a new car. i suggested a bmw although he wanted an audi. and he finally gave in and decided a bmw. next, was the series of the car. he wanted a 5 year old series 5 bmw while i suggested a less than 3 year old bmw 3 series. then he wanted a black metallic color and i wanted a dark blue bmw.
what we wanted in our minds were totally different. and i even brought this up to shane and jeanne and we were all thinking that he might just be asking for the sake of asking. i mean afterall, it's his car. it's boys toys and women have absolutely no say in it.
he promised to bring me for a test drive weekend after weekend but we never got to do it cause i have been feeling really upset over work everyday and he brought me out to get fresh air and picnics in the park. and finally he said we would do the test drive over this weekend.
then for some strange reason, he had been on the phone secretly and msging all the time while we were out this week. and i was beginning to think he was probably msging someone else. and then he kept asking me what time i was free for lunch and finish work today. which i honestly felt it was weird because i finish early today and he said he wanted to finish work early too to take a break from work.
so today, at 12.30pm, he called me to tell me he wanted to go out for lunch and if i were free. i went to the foyer to wait for the same usual red mazda. my students were with me so i had them to look out for me too as we were chatting. and suddenly, a car started honking. i thought it was an insane parent and the guard was gesturing to me. and i refused to look further because i see a dark blue color car instead of a red mazda and said 'nope! not the car i'm waiting for' AND
i see M grinning and waving at me! i was totally stunned! and it took me another 3 mins to stand next to the car and staring at it before i got on and had a major outburst. Apparently, he decided to choose the car i had wanted and suggested, dumped his idea and bought it! he knew my dream car had been a bmw and he also knew i had been in the dumps lately and badly wanted to cheer me up. hence, he had been on the phone secretly with the car agent to arrange the car. Once he had his car, he drove right down to school to surprise me and had me be his first passenger (:
of which, i was so surprised and speechless! and then i just had to whip out my phone and text jeanne and stella and then called mum. i could hardly contain my excitement and JUST had to let them all out. thank goodness for all of the girlfriends and mum or else i would have died in the car due to hyperventilation. haha yes true true, it's not like he bought the car for me but he promised that if i will get to drive his car while he's away.
like...OH MY GOD! 2 years ago when he had his red mazda, it took him 2 years to finally let me drive his car, in the carpark, to gain his trust, before i get the chance to actually finally drive it around singapore when we go out. and now he allows me to drive MY dream car.
and after that, to celebrate his new big ticket item, we headed down to town in his new sweet. both of us gushing to one another about the greatness of the car, both of us feeling ecstatic and euphoric. and more importantly, he was really glad i was so surprised and his planned had worked. continued our gushing at Canele and walked around ion.
wow. i know it sounds ridiculous that i'm actually narrating all these down but i'm really ecstatic over the car. because that silly cow actually bothered to listen to me and bought the one i had wanted (i might as well have it but we both decided that it's best that he gets the car and he drives me around. which i promise you, i'm perfectly fine with that arrangement)
but yeah! ok excitingggggggggg!
photos sooonnn when we go out to take a photoshoot of the CAR!
Labels: bff, car, work
Magical pen of thoughts @ 8:58 PM
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so! i haven't been updating at all! let's just say there are two reasons why so. firstly, i've been horribly busy. my everyday is spent to its fullest. there hasn't been a chance i could sit down and watch tv peacefully for more than 15mins. i hope all this madness ends when the kids are done with their exams.
secondly, i'm terrified of the net at the moment. my girls are ultra resourceful and they can find almost anything and everything on the net. one day they told me, " Ms hou! go and google your own name and you know what we'll find!!!!"
sheesh!
nonetheless, there's nothing bad to talk about for now. my job's keeping me sane (strangely), my girls are great, there's still tons of marking and paper setting to do. compiling everyone's questions and formatting it and aligning it is a such a bitch. but still, i'm not exactly whining (:
it's the hols! my well deserved break! one week of no waking up early but work work work. thank god for the no-school- work. i have so much things on backlog and at least i get to wake up own time own target. hehe. i can't wait to go to town and walk around the new shops! it's so ironic innit? i'm working in town and go there everyday, but yet, i don't get the liberty to shop around. sigh
and many people to meet this hols! i NEEDDDD to get back to my life! life isn't all about work so i'm gonna have hot dates with all those i've missed dearly!
ok! time to get back to my markings. will be updating as and when i can! (:
Labels: friends, work
Magical pen of thoughts @ 7:47 AM
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the long weekend is here and i have to suffer from ANOTHER bout of flu on wednesday. i felt like crap in school having to feel like i'm swallowing saw dust down my throat. my throat was clamping down on me and i nearly couldn't breathe with my nasals all blocked. by thursday and friday, i still managed to drag myself to school and then rush home to concuss with the anti-histamines killing me. arghh. totally crapped. and now my room is filled with tissue papers lying around.
in any case, i'm spending the weekend away from home with the family. last year we checked into ritz carlton to look at the parade from high high up, but this year, we decided to get away from the west so we decided on Changi village hotel. so now... i'll need to pack and leave home in a few hours. yay! kinda looking forward to it. need a break desperately. and hopefully a quick change of environment would do me good.
Sun rays come down as seen
when they hit the ground,
Children spinning around
till they fall down down down.
I wait for you: it's been two hours now,
You're still somewhere in town,
Your dinners getting cold.
I rest my case you are always this late,
And you know how much I hate
waiting around 'round 'round,
Bitter heart, bitter heart tries to keep it all inside,
Bitter heart, bitter heart shadows will help you try to hide,
Bitter heart, my bitter heart is gettin' just a little fragile,
Bitter heart, bitter heart of mine.
And then you come and tell me
the same reason as you did yesterday,
So tell me whats her name.
Doo doo da dum, doo doo da dum,
doo doo doo doo doo doo da da dum dum,
da da da da dum, da da da da dum, da da da da dum.
Bitter heart, bitter heart tries to keep it all inside
Bitter heart, bitter heart shadows will help you try to hide,
Bitter heart, my bitter heart is just getting a little fragile,
Bitter heart, bitter heart of mine,
of mine, of mine, of mine, of mine, of mine.
Labels: family, sick, work
Magical pen of thoughts @ 8:10 AM
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sorry for the lack of updates. have been busy with stuff lately and didn't have the luxury of time to sit down and type out something at my own leisure.
nothing much has really happened. work has been fantastic so far. i enjoy being around with my crazy colleagues and my totally cute and insane girls, i feel so cheered up when i step into class and a whole bunch of joy springs out at me. Teaching blocks become more enjoyable and my other paper work seems to be going on fine. somehow, it assures me that i'm more settled with my job and i'm rather satisfied with the current state of things.
well anyway, i've taken ill. and hence i'm home typing this. my temperature has been rising consistently and i decided against going to work lest i infect other people. Strange thing is, i feel perfectly fine though my temperature is at 38.0 degrees. slept the day away and the doctor has issued me a 3 day medical leave...so basically i don't have to go back to work for the rest of the week. i know i should rejoice and bask in this short hiatus from work. but i don't seem quite relaxed that i have work to clear and my classes to teach.
on another note, i bumped into angela who was going to work when i was done with work yesterday evening. sigh. i made a trip down to the jurong lib and visit the little corner i used to mug my ass off from 10am to 5pm, when i'll go home and watch ellen. i miss my uni friends and studying. i'd give anything to do those things all over again.
ah well
Labels: friends, random, school, work
Magical pen of thoughts @ 3:20 PM
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haven't blogged for such a long time. mainly because everytime i wanna post something, blogger is down. oh well...updates finally!
many thanks to H1N1, all activities after school have been cancelled. i can't say that i'm disappointed because we're not to loiter in school when its dismissed, so once the bell rings, i GO HOME! oh my god! i'm like so damn happy everytime i get back because i get to take a nap, wake up, do some work on my laptop then go for a swim or even a jog, then dinner and sleep. how shiok is THAT. but then again, i know that once H1N1 is not so bad, i'll have an avalanche of after school activities. eeks. not looking forward to it.
anyway, check this out. it's employers' dreams but a workaholic and an employee's nightmare:
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MOH has commenced the issue of a 10-day Medical Certificate (MC) for students 12 years old and below, and a 7-day MC for staff and students above 12 years old, for those with flu-like symptoms
ok! i'm sleepy already on this lazy saturday. will go take a nap and hopefully blog more later on!
Labels: random, work
Magical pen of thoughts @ 12:51 PM
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i'm sick.
It all started off with the Lee Chin violin concert which RGS made such a big fiasco over. All the teachers had to go home, change into something nice since SR Nathan was gonna be there. By the time the concert ended, i felt ultra drained and all my energy sucked. On Tuesday and wednesday, so many teachers started falling ill. I was sneezing and dying yesterday but tried to stay on till as late as i could since i had a meeting with boss. And finally after meeting was over, boss pleased me to go home. Was so ultra sick that all i wanted to do was to head to bed. Managed to speed home safely, changed and crashed.
By the time i got up, it was 8pm and i figured out that i should just get an MC from work today. M happened to text me to ask for dinner but all i wanted to do is to grab the mc and go back to sleep again. and sweet M decided to come down and surprise me at the clinic even though i told him i could manage.
so now i'm home...still feeling sleepy. so much for a long weekend. sigh.
anyway, damn the swine flu. now my trip to europe has to be put on hold or even cancel it. sheeeeet. i was so looking forward to going to see the lourve. damn.
Labels: bff, sick, work
Magical pen of thoughts @ 8:10 AM
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goodness me. my blog seems nearly dead at the last post. anyhow, i'm back (:
As craig puts it, i had my first virgin clubbing experience on Friday night. I was really looking forward to meeting jeanne craig and jeremy on friday the entire week. after finishing off the last meeting of the week at 5.30pm, i had to rush home to return the car before meeting jeanne and craig at vivo's modesto's for dinner.
we had such a good time catching up. craig's like the entertainer of the night and making us laugh like crazy. i really miss school life with these bunch of people. looking back, school wasn't really school at all. i'm really so glad i met friends like them (:
anyway, we had the Formagi pizza- 4 different types of cheese which craig was raving mad about. After which, we headed down to clarke quay to meet jeremy at Forbidden City. Along the way, we bumped into Tze hwee who was having her time in central during this exam period. haha
Much thanks to jeremy, we managed to get ourselves into the VIP area.
we hung around the area, shouting into one another's ears and did lots of people watching. All in all, it was really fun. And not to mention, lots of cam whoring.
Unfortunately, i had to work the next day so i had to leave much earlier before the party even begins. took a cab back home which was hell expensive. went home, collapsed on bed and woke up the next morning to see all my girls. sigh.
Work's still busy. currently coming up with 2 new major projects which hopefully, will take the school by storm and then my hard work will all pay off. it's sucking my energy and blood at the moment and having the management and my bosses all coming down hard on me. and of course, i hope this will add on to my performance bonus, if any at all. And then there's another school event to attend tomorrow evening at the esplanade. it's tiring but i sometimes i take comfort in the business of work. but i hate it that i still have to work on weekends, even at home. i really envy people who can leave work at office and once they're out of their working place, it's really all behind them. sigh.
my expenses have also went up. every month i'm buying a big ticket item.
Last year december: My macbook
January: MORE clothes and shoes (not that big ticket but still...)
Feb: Nintendo Wii
March: ipod touch. 500Gb hard disk
April: more gadgets for the ipodtouch, macbook. Made 2 pairs of new glasses
Coming may: my new handphone since this one is dying on me
Coming june: Germany/ europe...which will probably cost me 2 months of my pay. booooo
shit. i think if i want to buy a car, i really ought to stop spending that way. if i can't earn more, i can only spend less.
ok..backlogs to clear for now.
Labels: friends, major retail therapy, party, work
Magical pen of thoughts @ 8:20 AM
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i owe my boss a WHOLE chunk of work. i probably even owe him my life. i'm supposed to send him a proposal by this week but the work email wasn't working so it forced me to 'not work' i was kinda enjoying that kinda freedom for awhile and told myself i'd get it done once i can access my inbox. lo and behold, i can access it now but i just can't seem to get myself to do work at all.
dieeeeee
it's good friday and i stayed home the whole day. wanted to go out to do some window shopping but somehow i can't seem to find anyone. so i guess that staying at home and rot could be of some therapy.
sigh
Labels: work
Magical pen of thoughts @ 9:04 PM
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clearly, if you were quick enough, you would have known i deleted my previous post.
and i guess as much as i know the blog's mine mine and i can say whatever i want, i better not risk it when it comes to the world wide web.
you never know how resourceful some girls are.
ok. it's 6.50am. and i'm already in office. time to work!
Labels: work
Magical pen of thoughts @ 6:50 AM
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Signs that show that you're becoming a workaholic:
1) you're sick and you're on MC but you can't afford to not go to work
2) you're staying in office till later and later
3) you're going back to office on weekends
Hello again! i have no idea who still reads this but let's just keep it alive for awhile while i can. and yes...i think i'm slowly becoming a workaholic. sighhhh
Well, work has been work. it's still busy but i try to make time for myself and... work?
this week has been lots of work-related dinners. sometimes i feel obliged to for such dinners..it's like.. politically correct. it can be fun at times but it can also be quite tiring at times when it comes to entertaining.
so let's see... on thursday, the bio people headed down to this little forest at Diary Farm. apparently it was a cow shed back in the olden days and now that boss has found it, she had decided to change it into an environmental lab. and since one of the partners we're working with are from Wales had this predecessor called Wallace, we decided to call it WELL- Wallace Environmental learning lab. quite cool la huh. some Wales guys came down to singapore to check out the place then we headed down for dinner at Rail way mall after that.
Thai cuisine restaurant
The Wales people and some of the bio people
I guess the first thing i was attracted to was the dessert (:
yummmmmmyyyyy! the yellow cupcake is called Bart Simpson. haha so cute! i didn't get to taste any of them. and i didn't manage to take any shots of the food we ordered. as much as i love to take photos of food, i thin sometimes the situation doesn't allow for it. especially when we have guests for dinner. -___-
then on Friday, seow hwee came back from cambridge and we decided to go for tea at Canele. After finishing all our meetings with whoever we were meeting, we drove down to Raffles City. it's becoming one of the places i frequent wayyyy too much.
we ordered
Le Royale
Raspberry Cheesecake. erm...not really very nice. would advice against it. or rather...don't even order this.
a HUGE plate of vegge, egg and bread. ok it's got a nicer name just that i can't remember it.
another plate of bread egg and ham. hehe
Strawberry Crepes (: super huge portion. it's worth every cent you pay
the ladies (: the amazing thing: none of them are from the bio department. They're all english department.
Then there was the usual friday movie with mervyn.
Shinjuku incident. oh my god. i HATED it. yes yes it's good plot good effects but the effects were sooo good that it was damn gory and gross. totally didn't enjoy the show at all. i wanted to leave the theatre halfway but mervyn seemed quite engrossed in it that i didn't wanna spoil it. turned out that he was just as grossed out. the plot was pretty heavy too... we felt so brain dead and mentally exhausted after that.
Labels: bff, food, movie, work
Magical pen of thoughts @ 8:15 PM
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Finally, a weekend to myself. to myself meaning: no need to go back to office or to even think about work.
ok, i still had to reply one email from work.
and well...another week plan for lessons next week.
but hey hey hey! it's so much better than the past few weekends. but then again, i had a great time last weekend catching up with boons, carol, mark and jeanne! i'm really glad certain issues and misunderstandings have been cleared up and i feel so much happier after meeting up with jeanne. all's good! and it's such a great feeling to have to rebuild that relationship all over again. I lost some earlier this month but now i've rebuild old ones. i'm really thankful (:
this week was just as insane. time flew by which is a good thing. On thursday, the few of us decided to stay back to play badminton and go to the gym. And then i practically spent the rest of the week nursing major muscle aches. and of course, dealing with some difficult people in school. the thing is, the difficult people aren't the kids. but well...just some people.. the other people. you get what i mean.
So my weekend was spent spacing out. i didn't do much at all. i started watching all my movie trailers and playing with my ipod touch. and well ok... basically mourned over the fact that i have to be down at bloody tampines on monday for nationals. !@#@#$#$%#$%$!@
nonetheless, next week's exciting programs awaits me! besides tomorrow (at ulu tampines), tuesday's another 4hr course after school (which means i'll end work at 6.30pm), wednesday there's 2 meetings and then there's rock climbing! how cool is that! i haven't done that since sec sch days..and now i'm reliving the memories back at the same place i first did it. So far, thursday's free (fingers crossed) and friday i'm meeting the usual suspects for dinner! i honestly can't wait for that! i need to see all these people desperately and catch up. and of course, i'm sure craig will entertain us with his usual antics. hehe
nonetheless, on friday after work at 7.30pm, m came to pick me up and we went to watch another bimbo chic flick.
yessss! my favorite book of all times! when i first read the novel 5 years back, i thought they should come up with a film. and 5 years later, it's produced! Jeanne even asked me if i was gonna catch the film. haha. and thank goodness m's the kinda sort who doesn't mind watching dumb shows with me.
Shopaholic was hilarious! if you're in for a good laugh, some silly moves and very into fashion, you ought to catch this show. certain things she does kinda reminds me of myself..and i can sooo totally relate to that. hehe
ok! i'm off to enjoy the rest of my weekend or what's left of it.
Labels: bff, friends, movie, work
Magical pen of thoughts @ 8:45 AM
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Happy Valentine's Day to all you out there!
Friday was with Audrey at the NUS career fair. I decided to drag her to the RGS booth although i think she's probably a little intimidated thanks to my stories. I left school extra early and cab down.. feeling MORE than happy to leave school and leave work.
while hopping around booths, aldrin gave me a call about a parcel i had received in school. i was so ultra surprised but i was reluctant to go back to school. So i got aldrin to leave at my desk and i could deal with it on monday. My colleagues started calling me to tell me the box was big and wondered why i didn't bother to come back to get it.
but but but! i just couldn't wait to see it! so i went back to school today and taa-dahhh!
i didn't expect it to be THAT huge. and yes yes my cubicle's getting messier by the months. sigh. but today, the box and the flowers took the limelight.
wow
half a dozen roses! sent to my school!
just to surprise me.... and to make me smile..
i was so touched by the flowers...until i opened up the card to see an even more elaborate expression
awwwwww! damn mushy and cheesy and gross. but hey.. i couldn't help smiling between cringes.
well OBVIOUSLY, if i had a date today, i wouldn't be blogging. And the person who had to go to great lengths and extent, was this sweetie. M had to leave for Hong Kong on Friday morning and therefore leave me totally dateless today. He had no clue i was going to leave school that early, and i had no idea i was going to get something from him. Sadly, M already left before i could call him to swoon and gush about the flowers. And to think that he didn't mention anything abt it at all when i was seeing him everyday.
(:
So anyway, after spending half an hour in office coming back to reality, i went down to town. last year, i was at Canele for V day. So this year, i decided to succumb to my temptations. i did retail therapy. I bought two blouses for work. And another cake this V day from Wheelock's Cedele.
Apparently the guy at the counter asked me " You don't have to buy the whole cake just because you're alone this Valentine's day you know?"
-____-"
and i spent the evening playing Wii.
Work's been shit but i guess i've other things for comfort.
ps: I CAN'T believe jamie yeo and glen ong has called it quits! is that news or what??
Labels: bff, food, shopping, work
Magical pen of thoughts @ 8:49 PM
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work and life has been shit over the last week
it was just pure crap and MORE rubbish.. the stress was just coming in. i think being busy is fine.. but i think having stress and people breathing down your neck is like... too much.
everyday people were bombarding me with work. it made me realize how much i long to go back to study.
sigh
anyway, the only comfort i could only get was from my really sweet family and M who were extremely supportive. i mean, seriously, when you come to the point where you're tired and feel like quitting, i think such people are the most important people in your life. M came to pick me up from work everyday when i had to end late. sometimes i'd be in school, in town or even tampines for cca and he'd be there to pick me up. especially now that the dad is hogging his new car, i think the last thing i need it to take a 1hr train ride from tampines to jurong at 8pm and reach home at 9pm for dinner.
and i still have backlogs to clear...including meeting up with people. which is a really serious issue because they are ALL those whom i haven't seen or caught up with for so long.
argh!
i'm 23 and my life is wasting away.
Labels: bff, work
Magical pen of thoughts @ 5:18 PM
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I got off work early today i was on a major gastric flu infection after a whole string of birthday celebrations. So tuesday and wednesday was spent recuperating at home, sleeping and also alot of vomitting. Work has been alright although there's still some amount of work to be done. my girls have been kind to me so classroom management is so much easier.
Monday was one horrid day. I was having such a serious mega migraine that i puked out everything in the staff toilet and some of my colleagues thought it was a serious case of monday blues. tell me about it. still, i had to attend a meeting till 6pm before spending another 2hrs in office finishing up some more work. thank god for M who decided to come down to school, take me out for dinner before sending a very sick me back home to spend the rest of the night dying.
Anyway, i bought new books to read over the long break! i'm also planning to catch more movies over the next few days. i'm in desperate need for Chick flicks and laugh my bimbo dumb side away.... at the expense of my movie companion.
Labels: bff, movie, random, work
Magical pen of thoughts @ 6:04 PM
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I'm never too good with rejections. Be it facing it or the one rejecting it.
Recently, i was terribly stressed over the decisions i have to make in life. And yesterday evening, i finally had to come to a decision which i found it so difficult to make. i guess i have been dragging it for too long and it was totally unfair to have 4 people waiting for my answer. so.. to all those who know what i'm talking about regarding my future.. i guess it's gonna be a surprise for what i chose in the end.
I guess there's always a difference in reality and being practical. A dream is a dream. but somehow, weighing the pros and cons made me see the picture clearer.
so after i made the horrible rejections, i felt so upset i had to ask someone out to keep me company and comfort. ended up crying to that one person i could always rely on at Pebble bay. and today, i'm feeling like i'm suffering from a bout of withdrawal symptoms.
There's just no turning back now.
Labels: bff, work
Magical pen of thoughts @ 10:37 AM
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